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astro-ph.SR2026

The Galah survey and symbiotic stars. II. Discovery, validation, and intensive follow-up of 44 new systems accreting at the lowest detectable levels

U. Munari, P. Valisa, N. Masetti +22

We report the discovery, validation, and characterization of 44 new symbiotic stars (SySts) accreting at the lowest detectable levels (Lacc =< 3 Lsun). Candidates were initially se…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 9 cited

Investigating the Upper Scorpius OB association with HERMES. I. The spectroscopic sample and 6D kinematics

Joseph J. Armstrong, Jonathan C. Tan, Nicholas J. Wright +5

We present results from a large spectroscopic survey of the nearest young association to the Sun, Upper Scorpius, conducted using 2dF/HERMES on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We u…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

First Resolution of Microlensed Images of a Binary-Lens Event

Zexuan Wu, Subo Dong, A. Mérand +72

We resolve the multiple images of the binary-lens microlensing event ASASSN-22av using the GRAVITY instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The light curves sh…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 2 cited

Survey for Distant Solar Twins (SDST) -- II. Design, observations and data

Fan Liu, Michael T. Murphy, Christian Lehmann +5

Studies of solar twins have key impacts on the astronomical community, but only 100--200 nearby solar twins ( 1 kpc) have been reliably identified over the last few decade…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 133 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley +165

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representat…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

The GALAH+ Survey: A New Library of Observed Stellar Spectra Improves Radial Velocities and Hints at Motions within M67

Tomaž Zwitter, Janez Kos, Sven Buder +25

GALAH+ is a magnitude-limited survey of high resolution stellar spectra obtained by the HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Its third data release provi…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 97 cited

The GALAH survey: effective temperature calibration from the InfraRed Flux Method in the Gaia system

L. Casagrande, J. Lin, A. D. Rains +23

In order to accurately determine stellar properties, knowledge of the effective temperature of stars is vital. We implement Gaia and 2MASS photometry in the InfraRed Flux Method an…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 23 cited

The GALAH survey: Chemical homogeneity of the Orion complex

Janez Kos, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Sven Buder +17

Due to its proximity, the Orion star forming region is often used as a proxy to study processes related to star formation and to observe young stars in the environment they were bo…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 105 cited

The GALAH Survey: Non-LTE departure coefficients for large spectroscopic surveys

A. M. Amarsi, K. Lind, Y. Osorio +23

Massive sets of stellar spectroscopic observations are rapidly becoming available and these can be used to determine the chemical composition and evolution of the Galaxy with unpre…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 11 cited

The GALAH survey: Characterization of emission-line stars with spectral modelling using autoencoders

Klemen Čotar, Tomaž Zwitter, Gregor Traven +11

We present a neural network autoencoder structure that is able to extract essential latent spectral features from observed spectra and then reconstruct a spectrum from those featur…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 50 cited

The GALAH survey: A census of lithium-rich giant stars

Sarah Martell, Jeffrey Simpson, Adithya Balasubramaniam +20

We investigate the properties of 1262 red giant stars with high photospheric abundances of lithium observed by the GALAH and \Ktwo-HERMES surveys, and discuss them in the context o…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 5 cited

The GALAH survey: Multiple stars and our Galaxy. I. A comprehensive method for deriving properties of FGK binary stars

G. Traven, S. Feltzing, T. Merle +24

Binary stellar systems form a large fraction of the Galaxy's stars. They are useful as laboratories for studying the physical processes taking place within stars, and must be corre…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 41 cited

Abundances in the Milky Way across five nucleosynthetic channels from 4 million LAMOST stars

Adam Wheeler, Melissa Ness, Sven Buder +10

Large stellar surveys are revealing the chemodynamical structure of the Galaxy across a vast spatial extent. However, the many millions of low-resolution spectra observed to date a…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 24 cited

The GALAH Survey: Temporal Chemical Enrichment of the Galactic Disk

Jane Lin, Martin Asplund, Yuan-Sen Ting +22

We present isochrone ages and initial bulk metallicities (, by accounting for diffusion) of 163,722 stars from the GALAH Data Release 2, mainly composed of main…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 7 cited

The GALAH survey: unresolved triple Sun-like stars discovered by the Gaia mission

Klemen Čotar, Tomaž Zwitter, Gregor Traven +16

The latest Gaia data release enables us to accurately identify stars that are more luminous than would be expected on the basis of their spectral type and distance. During an inves…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 34 cited

Discovery of a 21 Myr old stellar population in the Orion complex

Janez Kos, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Martin Asplund +12

The Orion complex is arguably the most studied star-forming region in the Galaxy. While stars are still being born in the Orion nebula, the oldest part was believed to be no more t…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 17 cited

The GALAH survey: a catalogue of carbon-enhanced stars and CEMP candidates

Klemen Čotar, Tomaž Zwitter, Janez Kos +19

Swan bands - characteristic molecular absorption features of the C molecule - are a spectroscopic signature of carbon-enhanced stars. They can also be used to identify carbon-e…

astro-ph.SR2018

The GALAH and TESS-HERMES surveys: high-resolution spectroscopy of luminous supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds and Bridge

Jeffrey D. Simpson, Dennis Stello, Sanjib Sharma +24

We report the serendipitous observations of 571 luminous supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds by the spectroscopic GALAH and TESS-HERMES surveys: 434 stars in the Large Magellanic…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 373 cited

The GALAH Survey: Second Data Release

S. Buder, M. Asplund, L. Duong +39

The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a large-scale stellar spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way and designed to deliver chemical information complementary to a l…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 56 cited

The GALAH Survey: Verifying abundance trends in the open cluster M67 using non-LTE spectroscopy

Xudong Gao, Karin Lind, Anish M. Amarsi +28

Open cluster members are coeval and share the same initial bulk chemical compositions. Consequently, differences in surface abundances between members of a cluster that are at diff…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 38 cited

The GALAH Survey: Accurate Radial Velocities and Library of Observed Stellar Template Spectra

Tomaž Zwitter, Janez Kos, Andrea Chiavassa +34

GALAH is a large-scale magnitude-limited southern stellar spectroscopic survey. Its second data release (GALAH DR2) provides values of stellar parameters and abundances of 23 eleme…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 124 cited

The GALAH survey: An abundance, age, and kinematic inventory of the solar neighbourhood made with TGAS

S. Buder, K. Lind, M. K. Ness +31

The overlap between the spectroscopic Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey & provides a high-dimensional chemodynamical space of unprecedented size. We present a…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 50 cited

The GALAH survey: Chemical Tagging of Star Clusters and New Members in the Pleiades

Janez Kos, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Ken Freeman +25

The technique of chemical tagging uses the elemental abundances of stellar atmospheres to `reconstruct' chemically homogeneous star clusters that have long since dispersed. The GAL…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 139 cited

The TESS-HERMES survey Data Release 1: high-resolution spectroscopy of the TESS southern continuous viewing zone

Sanjib Sharma, Dennis Stello, Sven Buder +22

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will provide high precision time-series photometry for millions of stars with at least a half-hour cadence. Of particular interest…